Your bones are scattered in a boggy field -
it happens all the time.
Time is your pocket handkerchief,
your shattered wristwatch,
your best evening pants,
all reduced to insect dust.
Hundreds of years later
they discover,
a distant tooth with its crown intact,
later still, a being reports your broken jaw,
unearthed by the sludging rain.
Bit by bit your skull is discovered.
Eventually they have enough of your head
to commence a plaster likeness
of your skull.
Your life is so distantly buried into the past,
that the new beings have to speculate...
some assume you died,
at the hands of an axe wielding foe,
others that you succumbed to a
primitive tooth condition.
None ever guess,
that you flew off your girlfriends Honda,
practicing one last incautious wheelie
on a minor road
in darkest Derbyshire.
Categories:
findings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Little Tykes
The little tykes,
They’re early trained
To hold onto little bags —
To carry their collected needs,
Or special treats,
Or found symbols of imaginings
To be kept for them alone —
In their name-labeled bags
That decades later they’ll keep
In the cabinets and closets
Of what they’ll call
As their own homes.
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(C)sally young eslinger 6/21/22
Inspiration:
From binkies with a toy and spare diaper; to Matchbox car and a glittery
stone found on the ground: to lunches; to…
Anyone here old enough to recall Penny Candy choices?
Currently like picking $1/ piece in specialty chocolate shops
Categories:
findings, america, childhood, memory, youth,
Form: Free verse
Loneliness doesn't
wish me around,
the anguish flees from me...
The pain tells me
it doesn't belong to me...
So I don't realize why I insist
longing for your company...!?
Categories:
findings, allusion, appreciation, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
There was an old man, to the doctor he went
He needed advice, he needed to vent
He read that he mustn’t have too much to eat
Or his good health, that would surely defeat.
No sugar, but substitutes would be fine
No diet drinks, or beer, or even wine
He stressed out and tried to listen so well
And followed the book, as his friends would tell.
His entire life was spent planning each day
While following every word “they” would say
Then he developed all manner of “ill”
Was sure he was dying against his will.
An autopsy was done, a finding found…
His constant worry put him in the ground!
Categories:
findings, health, humorous, inspiration,
Form: Sonnet
Jupiter Findings
~
Here at the edge,
evening’s farewell drapes
a horizon’d neckline
crimson scarves
weave nature’s portals above
chilled coastal dreams
where weathered planks,
saltwater worn, reach
in straight line destinations
from shore to sea
and back again,
silently as
reflections of
distant landscapes and
yesterday longings
gather neath a
heart shaped halo
sent to find…you
Categories:
findings, love, ocean, sea,
Form: Free verse
Come now and follow me into the depths of my sacrifice
What a lapse you have made to think I put My life before your life
How great is your strong arm and how far do you think that it reaches
You can't carry the weight of your flesh; it has ground you to pieces
I was born to the body and mind that you constantly fight with
I was tempted and tested and found on all counts to be righteous
I put your life before My life and it's not for your value or brightness
Even those who pierced My hands will not be cast out and made lifeless
I make slaves of no one through all of the span of infinity
It is rashness to think the Divine Shepherd is late with divinity
Categories:
findings, christian, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Facebook Findings
Press and like the number five.
Jane the virgin on Twitter
This spoon takes away
the effects of the shakes
When you get fresh sheets
and you just shaved your legs.
This dude spent eight years
growing a chair
Shannon has exactly 200 friends.
Kakistocracy- government by
the worst available people.
You are convicted by your complicity.
Did Jesus leave us a tip to diabetes?
This is what happens when
you wrap your teeth in
aluminum foil for an hour.
Age your spirits at home.
There are several islands
atop the falls
and they are Zambian.
There's a lot of gross ********
that goes on
in the creative world.
Please like and share
Categories:
findings, funny, humorous, imagery, nonsense,
Form: Free verse
I'm alone again oddly I'm not lonely
French guards beckons my thoughts
while British chemist crave my mind
creating formula's mastering tampering
with inner most thought's I suppose
I hear folks chattering a quaint theory
a carney lure of tyrants and folklore
balanced between a quiet energy
nestled so beneath a poet's memoric form
a certain dialog so faint and distant
capturing me in the sheer
rapture of going mad again
Categories:
findings, anxiety,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Seek what was lost
With profound tact;
Bear with the cost
As findings fact.
Look closer then
To check things out;
You know not when
Findings hurl shouts.
Search deeper still
To hidden gems;
Wear a straight will
That cracks the dam.
Find in sure form
The misplaced stuff;
Stretch a new norm
To fund enough.
See the sure poise
That styles fine takes;
Heed your heart's choice
As voice now makes.
Leon Enriquez
13 April 2015
Singapore
Categories:
findings, change,
Form: Quatrain